Installation failed with "Too many values provided for boot drive: disk/by-id/scsi-xxxxxxx" in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 with multipath device

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Issue

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 installation failed with the following error.
10:41:32,805 ERR anaconda: storage configuration failed: The following problem occurred on line 16 of the kickstart file:

Too many values provided for boot drive: disk/by-id/scsi-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • This is the bootloader kickstart command used for this installation.
bootloader --location=mbr --boot-drive=disk/by-id/scsi-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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